Manuel Alberto Aybar

Manuel Alberto Aybar (born May 27 1976) is a native of Miami, Florida. Manuel is currently Music Director of the Inland Chamber Orchestra and the Corona Canto Bello Chorale. In addition, he is also conducts with the Chamber Orchestra at California State University, San Bernardino.

He was the resident conductor for the Camerata Bach, an early period ensemble in Central America, as well as concurrently serving as music director for the San Antonio School for the Performing Arts and San Fernando Cathedral, the oldest Cathedral Sanctuary in the United States. Furthermore, he also served as the assistant conductor for the University of Redlands Youth Symphony. Manuel has also held positions with the Los Angeles Opera and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

In Latin America his guest conducting engagements have included the national orchestras of Nicaragua, El Salvador and Uruguay, along with the Leon Symphony Orchestra, the Granada Symphony and the Monterrey Symphony in Mexico. In the United States he has conducted the San Bernardino Symphony, the Macon Sinfonia, the Pacific Symphony Institute Orchestra, the Bakersfield Symphony, the University of San Diego Symphony, the Debut Orchestra, the La Sierra Symphony and the Palisades Symphony. He’s also worked closely with the New Professionals Orchestra in London.

Manuel studied orchestral conducting at the Royal College of Music with Neil Thomson and John Farrer, at the California Conducting Institute with Daniel Lewis, and at UCLA with Jon Robertson. He was accepted to the Aspen Music Festival as a seminar conductor in 1995 and was an orchestral conducting fellow at the University of Arizona in 1993. He also studied choral conducting at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome, and has performed in master classes directed by Jorma Panula and Otto-Werner Mueller.